Same. I think blood god is highly underrated. A couple of pc players posted about the blood totem glitch earlier. I haven't had a chance to test the ps4 version of blood totem yet, and if it is broken on ps4, I have never noticed because I have not yet incorporated blood totem into my game. I'm going to check it out later tonight or tomorrow morning.
The best two ways to use sun ray/god ray are:
It is awesome but unfortunately this works partly just because there's enough delay for it's speed not to matter. Against a lot of aggressive characters they can often just hit you before it lands otherwise.
Yeah, I wish they would have turned that move into a fatality where he does the same animation but drains the person soul and they explode after.
Blood god has the problem that you have no tools or options. I've toyed around with it to try and make it work and it gets some hilarious results sometimes but at the end of the day you keep encountering the same problem that you have so few options you can really do at a given moment, since your attack options are basically just a few regular normals. At bare minimum it would need it's f1b2 and b122 strings to be completely safe on block (-5 or better) for me to see Blood god as being viable, because without these better normals it's just too limiting. War god in contrast is safe for everything that can be cancelled.
Even on offense, I never feel like healing or throwing it on my opponent is worth sacrificing the damage from War God df2 AND the oki pressure.... it honestly seems like a useless move. I want it to be useful though, I find it an interesting concept, I need to see some of its use in high level play to really get it I think.
I've seen Rico use both moves very occasionally. Regular sun isnt so good but EX is somewhat usable since it can heal like up to 20% or so. In both cases though it doesn't really change much. They would need to be around 40 frames total time to be usable.
Well, I use it a lot less when I play War God as opposed to when I play Blood God (which I have played a bunch) or Sun God (which I have barely played). But, there is no way that it is useless. Having a guaranteed heel move is definitely worth something. I highly recommend healing yourself on knockdown every once in a while. It has saved me numerous times in close matches.
War God is definitely his strongest overall variation, but I also definitely think Blood God is viable. Essentially, Blood God is all about putting a totem on the screen after every hard knockdown and after every blocked, safe attack, and of course, using parry to stuff wake-ups and interrupt strings.
For Sun God, the first thing I'll try in order to escape ice clone pressure will be the EN Sun God Choke. Since it has armor, I'm hoping it will armor through the ice in between block strings. I'll work on that this weekend and see if I can come up with something.
Parry multiple times! Technically you can do this thouhg you may or may not need meter burn versions for some of these. And the dmg bonus then stacks so you caa follow up with a 40%+ uppercut.
Im trying that but even in practise mode i have a hard time parrying more then 2 hits. I think i need to hit the lab abit more for getting a better excecution.
Sun god is usable, but sub par to War significantly.
Does he atleast have a good punish into command grab to build sun stacks?
Ofcourse sungods command grab is not high damage for lvl 1 but you can get to lvl 3 really fast, and most of your combos give u atleast 40% dmg with 1 bar abd lvl 3. His f2b1 is descent to whiff punish, its a forward moving string wich launches. 114 is good for upclose punish wich can be comboed in commandgrab.
He has some VERY good punishes. Kotal is, generally speaking, an awesome punisher. He has high damaging punishes starting with 114 (his fastest and most damaging punisher starter), F1B2, and F2 that can ALL be ended with command grab to level up your grab each time you punish your opponent. So, punishes and building sun stacks is not Sun God's problem.
Well you have decent punished in general, and on juggle you can link into the grab.
the issue is that these combos just come from his base abilities with the throw just being a finisher, which is nothing War doesnt do already. The issue as always with SUn and blood is the limited options to actually use and apply those combo's as the best safe strings aren't cancel-able starters.
War God is the strongest variation with good mixups, can make all his strings safe, and can punish for +35% for one bar. He can't zone because his projectile is ridiculously slow, and he loses most of his specials for a few seconds after he uses it. It is however extremely plus on block, making it somewhat useful for setups.
